An emancipated child will be able to collect child support arrearages to pay for her custodial parent’s funeral but
she and her sibling will not be allowed to accept the remainder of the accrued support payments, ruled the Indiana Court of
Appeals.

Sidestepping a question of first impression in a child support case, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the modification
of child support due to insufficient evidence. The father in this case believed his ex-wife was using child support money
to fund her veterinary practice.

A father whose annual income included varying bonuses and commissions is obligated to provide child support payments in line
with evolving guidelines, despite a support agreement made a year earlier than the rules were revised, the Indiana Supreme
Court ruled.

In family disputes, we’re often faced with a dilemma in which the supporting spouse’s income suddenly and/or dramatically
decreases without valid support or explanation. In the valuation industry, this disorder is commonly known as “R.A.I.D.S.”
or Recently Acquired Income Deficiency Syndrome.

The Indiana Supreme Court had harsh words Tuesday for parents and attorneys who enter into agreements that stipulate giving
up parenting time in lieu of paying child support. There must be extraordinary circumstances to justify denying parenting
time.

A woman does not have to pay the attorney fees for her ex-husband after she sought more than $135,000 in owed child support
after he failed to pay for 16 years, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. The trial court ordered her to pay the fees under
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

A mother who claimed that the record doesn’t support her actual or current income after her ex-husband was granted sole
custody of her children should have brought up her concerns at trial, not on appeal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

A LaPorte County mother’s decision to cut off parenting time of her three children with their father supports the trial
court’s order that the father have sole legal and physical custody of the children, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

The Indiana Court of Appeals was presented with an issue for the first time: whether a child support order should be reduced
for the time a child is living on campus when a court has found that the child has repudiated the non-custodial parent, and
on that basis refused to enter an educational support order.

An amendment to Indiana Code last year lowering the age child support may be terminated to 19 trumped a previous dissolution
decree that said a father must pay support for his son until he turns 21, the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided.

For the second time, a “contentious” child support dispute has come before the Indiana Court of Appeals. The judges
upheld most of the obligations imposed on the father but ordered the trial court to use a different income allocation factor
regarding certain bonuses.

The Indiana Supreme Court will weigh whether a student who resisted being handcuffed by a school resource officer merits adjudication
as a delinquent for the equivalent of Class D felony resisting law enforcement.

A father who contested a trial court order that he must pay child support for two children failed to convince the Court of
Appeals that he did not consent to their conception through artificial insemination.